Preparing for nursing school, going through nursing school, and working as a nurse can all be challenging, but the rewards are worth it. Especially from the ICU vantage point, where we often see them in some of their most dire situations after their injuries, being able to celebrate their successes with them is a wonderful thing to be a part of.ĭo you have any advice for someone looking to go into nursing? Aside from that, it’s always an awesome thing to see patients come back after their hospitalization and share how they’re doing. I’d probably have to say that was my best day at Shepherd. She’s a nurse as well and used to work here. Additionally, ICU nurses use a lot of technical skills and get the opportunity to practice toward the top of their scope of practice, which further drew me to the specialty.
In the ICU, you need to be sharp and on top of things for the sake of your patients. I enjoy medical complexity and being able to see the immediate results of your interventions. I chose ICU after working as a spinal cord injury rehabilitation nurse for three years because I wanted to treat higher acuity patients with more complex disease processes. The workplace culture was so well ingrained in positivity, friendliness, and collaboration it was an easy decision. As I approached graduation from nursing school, it was natural to transition my role to a PCT and later an RN at Shepherd. I applied, interviewed, and was offered the job.
I had never heard of Shepherd Center before, but during a web search, I found a job as a food service assistant at Shepherd. While in nursing school, I was looking for a job to bridge my restaurant experience into healthcare. Prior to nursing, my work experience consisted primarily of the restaurant and food service industry. I came across Shepherd Center unexpectedly. Why did you choose to work at Shepherd Center in the ICU? I actually started as a food service assistant and worked my way up as a patient care technician (PCT), a registered nurse (RN) in the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program, a nurse educator from 2018-2019, and now I’m an RN in the ICU. I’ve been at Shepherd Center for 13 years. He couldn't run at the time, but back in September he was with a group who came to Chattanooga.How long have you worked at Shepherd Center He says it's a challenging program, but he says they were able to get him the treatments he needed. And he said, you know, what's, what's wrong? And I said, I thought I was going crazy," Mr. And to be honest with you that data, they told me the provider, his name was Dr. And they were like, you have a brain injury. So during the assessment, my left pupil went up my right people went down, they came back converge, and they were just literally shaking. "They knew just what to do to trigger my TBI, traumatic brain injury.
He told him about a program at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. And there was a provider there at the VA who he asked me one day he said, you know, Hey, how you doing? And I'm like, I'm fine. "I would typically have to hold the wall because my vertigo was so bad. Turner started to feel that something wasn't right. "Essentially four shoulder surgeries, two elbow surgeries, two surgeries on my jaw was filleted open by a nice little piece of shrapnel," Jarrad Turner said. Ten years in the Army and two tours in Iraq, Jarrad Turner was badly injured in his second deployment.
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